Hassan Abous

Hassan Abous is the emir of Homs under the Islamic State.

Biography
Hassan Abbous was a Syrian jihadist during the Syrian Civil War, leader of Dawud Brigade who defected from the Free Syrian Army to the Islamic State on July 7, 2014. Abbous is said to have led some 1,000 militants and a big convoy of armor from a part of Idlib under FSA control to Raqqa, the main stronghold of the Islamic State in the east of Syria. There, he pledged fealty to the Islamic caliphate, and in turn was named the emir of Homs. During the 2014 campaigns against the Syrian Army in the east, he fought against the army of President Bashar al-Assad in the Battle of the Shaer Gas Field on 16-26 July, which was a Syrian victory.